Latest content added for UNT Digital Library Collection: Environmental Policy Collectionhttp://digital.library.unt.edu/explore/collections/ESDC/browse/?fq=untl_institution:UNT&fq=dc_rights_access:public&fq=untl_decade:1990-19992013-10-14T10:54:56-05:00UNT LibrariesThis is a custom feed for browsing UNT Digital Library Collection: Environmental Policy Collection1999 - 2000 Legislature: 1999 Senate Bill 2872013-10-14T10:54:56-05:00http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc226699/<p><a href="http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc226699/"><img alt="1999 - 2000 Legislature: 1999 Senate Bill 287" title="1999 - 2000 Legislature: 1999 Senate Bill 287" src="http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc226699/small/"/></a></p><p>An Act making an appropriation for the state land disposal bank program; making an appropriation from the constitutional budget reserve fund under art. IX, sec. 17(c), Constitution of the State of Alaska; and providing for an effective date.</p>Our Changing Planet: The FY 1995 U.S. Global Change Research Program2013-10-14T10:54:56-05:00http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc226622/<p><a href="http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc226622/"><img alt="Our Changing Planet: The FY 1995 U.S. Global Change Research Program" title="Our Changing Planet: The FY 1995 U.S. Global Change Research Program" src="http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc226622/small/"/></a></p><p>The U.S. GLOBAL CHANGE RESEARCH PROGRAM (USGCRP) supports activities that provide information and policy-relevant understanding about the coupling of human activities and the environment across a broad range of issues, perspectives, and interactions. Global change research focuses on providing scientific insight into critical global change issues and policy choices facing the nation and the world community. Global change research to address these issues is organized into a flexible multidisciplinary framework for coordinating science activities. Each global change issue is addressed through a process which strives to document, understand, predict, and assess the science in a way that yields results that are relevant to the needs of decision makers. The USGCRP is founded on the premise that international cooperation and coordination is fundamental to addressing global environmental issues. USGCRP programs significantly contribute to worldwide global change research efforts</p>Potential Health Effects of Climatic Change: Report of a WHO Task Group2013-10-14T10:54:56-05:00http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc226692/<p><a href="http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc226692/"><img alt="Potential Health Effects of Climatic Change: Report of a WHO Task Group" title="Potential Health Effects of Climatic Change: Report of a WHO Task Group" src="http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc226692/small/"/></a></p><p>This report contains the collective view of an international group of experts and does not necessarily represent the decisions or the stated policy of the World Health Organization.</p>Florida's Global Warming Solutions: A Study for: World Wildlife Fund2013-10-14T10:54:56-05:00http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc226731/<p><a href="http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc226731/"><img alt="Florida's Global Warming Solutions: A Study for: World Wildlife Fund" title="Florida's Global Warming Solutions: A Study for: World Wildlife Fund" src="http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc226731/small/"/></a></p><p>This report assesses how the set of national actions presented in America’s Global Warming Solutions would affect Florida’s energy systems, carbon emissions and economy. This study finds that by 2010, the set of national actions to reduce global warming would decrease Florida’s primary energy use by 26 percent and its carbon emissions by 36 percent. They would also provide increasing annual savings reaching about $300 per-capita in 2010 and averaging about $110 per-capita per year between now and 2010. Thus, the State would cumulatively save about $17 billion over that period. The set of national actions would also create approximately 39,000 net additional jobs in Florida by 2010. They would reduce emissions of other pollutants and begin to shift the basis of the State’s economy towards more advanced, energy-efficient technologies and cleaner resources. The table below summarizes these results.</p>Near-term Health Benefits of Greenhouse Gas Reductions: A Proposed Assessment Method and Application in Two Energy Sectors of China2013-10-14T10:54:56-05:00http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc226706/<p><a href="http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc226706/"><img alt="Near-term Health Benefits of Greenhouse Gas Reductions: A Proposed Assessment Method and Application in Two Energy Sectors of China" title="Near-term Health Benefits of Greenhouse Gas Reductions: A Proposed Assessment Method and Application in Two Energy Sectors of China" src="http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc226706/small/"/></a></p><p>This is a study of projected near-term health benefits associated with greenhouse (GHG) reductions resulting from changes in energy efficiency and structure of energy use in the power and household sectors of China. The work was commissioned by the former Office of Global and Integrated Environmental Health at WHO, in order to explore the scope for modelling in the assessment of such short-term health benefits. China was selected as an appropiate case study for this work, as it fulfilled most of the criteria required, including the fact that it is a large country, with data sets available on air pollution and health, and with information on projected trends in the consumption of fossil fuels</p>Turning Up the Heat: How Global Warming Threatens Life in the Sea2013-10-14T10:54:56-05:00http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc226788/<p><a href="http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc226788/"><img alt="Turning Up the Heat: How Global Warming Threatens Life in the Sea" title="Turning Up the Heat: How Global Warming Threatens Life in the Sea" src="http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc226788/small/"/></a></p><p>This new report argues that rising temperatures have impacted the world's oceans to a far greater extent than previously acknowledged. Addressing topics such as sea-level rise, ocean circulation, coral reefs, sea birds and invertebrates, as well as the increasing threats to Salmon, the report predicts a dangerous chain reaction in marine ecosystems if global warming continues unabated. On the positive side, it also argues that decisive actions now to reduce pollution can slow the warming and preserve the world's oceans.</p>Environmental Effects of Ozone Depletion: 1994 Assessment2013-10-14T10:54:56-05:00http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc226717/<p><a href="http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc226717/"><img alt="Environmental Effects of Ozone Depletion: 1994 Assessment" title="Environmental Effects of Ozone Depletion: 1994 Assessment" src="http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc226717/small/"/></a></p><p>A change in the composition of the stratosphere becomes relevant to society only if it has noticeable effects. This places the assessment of effects in a pivotal role in the problem of ozone depletion. Decreases in the quantity of total-column ozone, as now observed in many places, tend to cause increased penetration of solar UV-B radiation (290-315 nm) to the Earth's surface. UV-B radiation is the most energetic component of sunlight reaching the surface. It has profound effects on human health, animals, plants, microorganisms, materials and on air quality. Thus any perturbation which leads to an increase in UV-B radiation demands careful consideration of the possible consequences. This is the topic of the present assessment made by the Panel on Environmental Effects of Ozone Depletion.</p>El Niño and health2013-10-14T10:54:56-05:00http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc226726/<p><a href="http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc226726/"><img alt="El Niño and health" title="El Niño and health" src="http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc226726/small/"/></a></p><p>El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a climate event that originates in the Pacific Ocean but has wide-ranging consequences for weather around the world, and is especially associated with droughts and floods. The irregular occurrence of El Niño and La Niña events has implications for public health. On a global scale, the human effect of natural disasters increases during El Niño. The effect of ENSO on cholera risk in Bangladesh, and malaria epidemics in parts of South Asia and South America has been well established. The strongest evidence for an association between ENSO and disease is provided by time-series analysis with data series that include more than one event. Evidence for ENSO's effect on other mosquito-borne and rodent-borne diseases is weaker than that for malaria and cholera. Health planners are used to dealing with spatial risk concepts but have little experience with temporal risk management. ENSO and seasonal climate forecasts might offer the opportunity to target scarce resources for epidemic control and disaster preparedness.</p>Incorporating biodiversity considerations into environmental impact analysis under the National Environmental Policy Act2011-02-15T16:20:10-06:00http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc31161/<p><a href="http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc31161/"><img alt="Incorporating biodiversity considerations into environmental impact analysis under the National Environmental Policy Act" title="Incorporating biodiversity considerations into environmental impact analysis under the National Environmental Policy Act" src="http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc31161/small/"/></a></p><p>This report outlines general concepts that underlie biological diversity analysis and management, and discusses methods for considering biodiversity in current and future NEPA analyses.</p>Considering Cumulative Effects Under the National Environmental Policy Act2011-02-15T16:20:10-06:00http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc31126/<p><a href="http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc31126/"><img alt="Considering Cumulative Effects Under the National Environmental Policy Act" title="Considering Cumulative Effects Under the National Environmental Policy Act" src="http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc31126/small/"/></a></p><p>This document is intended to assist Federal agencies with analyzing cumulative effects during the NEPA process. It outlines general principles, common cumulative effects assessment methodologies, and resources for additional information and background data.</p>